Koh Phi Phi Part I: Long Tail Boat Ride

A friend of ours organized a group trip to Koh Phi Phi (the island of Phi Phi) for her birthday this past weekend. It was amazing! Koh Phi Phi is THE island you see in all the photos of Phuket. I equivocate it to Santorini in Greece. When you see all those images of the beautiful blue dome churches in Greece, those are almost always photos of Santorini. Likewise with Phi Phi and Phuket. It's also where they filmed the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, The Beach. It is possibly one of the most beautiful places on earth.

After arriving and checking into our hostel (below is the view from our hostel, Blanco Dorm)

We grabbed a quick lunch, drinks, ice and boarded a long tail boat for a 6 hour ride around the islands.

It was by far the coolest thing we did on Phi Phi. If you ever make it there, do a long tail boat ride! We spent the day drinking, snorkeling and swimming. The views were phenomenal and it was such a good time.

I have to confess that after that many hours in the sun + lots of drinking + general debauchery = you end up pretty toasty. We ended the ride wearing life jackets as diapers (or "nappies" as our friends call them) floating in the cove you see above, still drinking (of course), and humming the John Williams score to Jurassic Park...because c'mon, how can you not think of Jurassic Park when you look at this?